Robert Crampton: Marriage is not like a phone contract (although I do miss my old brick)

Robert Crampton

Tuesday October 23 2018, 12.01am, The Times

Forget till death us do part, a quarter of British youngsters think marriage should be a temporary contract with frequent opportunities to upgrade to a better deal, rather in the manner of a rolling mobile phone contract. The same survey revealed that one third of 18 to 24-year-olds are in favour of polygamy and 30 per cent support “fluid arrangements” within matrimony. I don’t know what “fluid arrangements” actually means. I can make a guess though. Sounds wrong, right? While also sounding quite naughty.

I don’t think we should add the first 25 per cent to the second 33 per cent to the third 30 per cent, by the way. That would make 88 per cent of youths happy to undermine the fundamental tenets of